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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

Nothing is inevitable. Effort is everything. Ignore the polls and run through the tape.

Vote: zohranfornyc.com/vote
Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 4h

The lawyers and intelligence professionals didn't even show up to the House Armed Services Committee briefing today on the U.S strikes on Venezuela. I didn't hear anything to prove otherwise – these strikes are illegal. They are murder. And they should stop immediately.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 3h

California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.

California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.

Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

ICE’s forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, lawmakers say arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

ICE’s forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, lawmakers say

Videos show ICE conducting random face scans on US streets.

arstechnica.com

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The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 35m

Honestly it's a good thing there's no negative psychological consequences to everything being casinos and upsells everywhere you look, all the time, in all of society

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about joining ICE and collecting that $50,000 and then just looking for cats in whatever city they send me to until I get fired

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 21h

living in the US is like staying at a 2.5 star hotel in hell. it’s miserable. you’re exhausted most days. but at least there’s wifi, doordash, and a roof over your head. it’s a hot mess, but you prepaid. so you can’t just leave. even tho you know u absolutely should check the f*ck out immediately.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16h

At least 3,000 people who have been detained in Chicago ICE raids are missing from official DHS records.

We still don’t know what happened to the 1200 people who went missing from the Everglades facility.

They’re disappearing people.

No due process. No accountability.

Could ICE have 'lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?

At least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

The change comes as the company faces lawsuits from multiple families of children who died by or attempted suicide.

Character.ai Will Ban Children From Speaking With Chatbots After Facing Regulatory Pressure And Lawsuits

The change comes as the company faces lawsuits from multiple families of children who died by or attempted suicide.

www.forbes.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18h

I had one parent who said something like “it’s so nice that you know the video game characters” and I thought, my god how hard is it to ask your kid what he really is interested in

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18h

My brother wisely asks:

Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 19h

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18h

If @billgates.bsky.social were to read #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & myself, he would know that climate change is amplifying deadly pandemics. Only someone ignorant of the science adopts the fallacy that we can treat global health and the climate crisis as separate threats

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18h

“Bill Gates Calls for Redirecting of Climate Funds to Global Health” by John Koutroumpis for #GreekReporter:

greekreporter.com/2025/10/29/b...

Bill Gates Calls for Redirecting of Climate Funds to Global Health - GreekReporter.com

Bill Gates urges global donors to focus less on climate change and more on eradicating disease and hunger in the world’s poorest nations.

greekreporter.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23h

This perfectly encapsulates what the GOP position is on the shutdown.

A tweet from John Fugelsang reads in all caps:
"NO FOOD FOR YOU UNTIL THE DEMOCRATS LET US TAKE AWAY YOUR HEALTHCARE"
– US House Speaker Mike Johnson.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

The U.S. is experiencing its highest wave of layoffs since 2020, with close to a million workers losing their jobs this year.

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Tina @ladyboater.bsky.social · 1d

The SCOTUS he bought gave him totally immunity, he can do what he wants when he wants.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Cuomo is trash.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

oh just straight up gutter racism!

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

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Beachbard @beachbard.bsky.social · 1d

Don't overlook McConnell who, through decades of manipulation using arcane Senate rules & eventually the hammer of Majority Leader controlled the composition of SCOTUS & the impeachment trials of Trump.
He could have averted the death of the US Constitutional Republic but chose party over country.

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 22h

Rich old white man wastes billions on other old rich white man’s doomed campaign

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 22h

So this story is super duper interesting for a whole ton of reasons, but one big one is its a very rare glimpse into the private valuation of high-end exploits held by major defense contractors

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 23h

Peter Williams, A former executive with US defense contractor L3Harris has pleaded guilty to selling digital spy tools to a Russian broker, the Justice Department announced. Williams pleaded to two counts of theft of trade secrets reut.rs/49o7Q0I

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 22h

Descendants of immigrants crapping on the most recent immigrants is as old as settler colonialism. It’s as though the accidental latitude & longitude of one’s birth imbues special unearned qualities upon the individual. Cuomo embodies the racism depicted in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York:

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 1d

they'll do anything to avoid living in the hell they've built for us

Ed Boooooo-mila @edburmila.bsky.social · Apr 16

I live 100ft away from a retired House rep in his 80s who I see at least monthly at our neighborhood social; he has said to me almost verbatim what Duncan said here. Older members are terrified of walking away from the 20-person 24/7 support network you can't even get in a high end nursing home.

Atrios @eschatonblog.com · Mar 26

I keep saying this but the reason members of congress want to stay in office until they die is they can't buy that kind of elder care anywhere else, even if they are rich

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